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Canהֲthe Cushiteכּוּשִׁיchangeיַהֲפֹךְhis skin,עוֹרוֹor the leopardוְנָמֵרhis spots?חֲבַרְבֻּרֹתָיוThen youאַתֶּםalsoגַּםwill be ableתּוּכְלוּto do good,לְהֵיטִיבyou who are taughtלִמֻּדֵיto do evil.הָרֵעַ
Jeremiah 13:23
Study it in the app“Can the Cushite change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then you also will be able to do good, you who are taught to do evil.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 13:23, word by word
- the Cushiteכּוּשִׁיkushi
Cushite
Cushite: a person from Cush, the region south of Egypt (toward present-day Sudan). Joab's messenger is called this (2 Samuel 18), and so is Ebed-melech, who pulled Jeremiah out of the cistern (Jeremiah 38). In the plural, the Cushites as a people. It says nothing good or bad about the person, only where they come from.
Where else “kushi” appears- changeיַהֲפֹךְyahafoch
change
To change something into something else.
Where else “yahafoch” appears- his skinעוֹרor
skin, leather
Skin, hide; leather.
Where else “or” appears- or the leopardנָמֵרnamer
leopard
A leopard.
Where else “namer” appears- his spotsחֲבַרְבֻּרֹתָיchavarburotay
spot
Spot, stripe on the skin of an animal (like those of the leopard).
Where else “chavarburotay” appears- will be ableתּוּכְלוּtuchlu
be able
To have the strength, the permission or the opportunity to do something.
Where else “tuchlu” appears- to do goodהֵיטִיבhetiv
do good
To act rightly, or mend one's ways.
Where else “hetiv” appears- you who are taughtלִמֻּדֵיlimude
accustomed
Used to something through practice, like an animal that always lives in the same place.
Where else “limude” appears- to do evilהָרֵעַharea
do evil
To harm someone; evildoers.
Where else “harea” appears
The context
22And if you say in your heart: “Why have these things happened to me?” For the multitude of your iniquity your skirts have been uncovered, your heels have suffered violence.
23 · This verse (above)
24And I will scatter them like chaff passing on with the wind of the wilderness.